Zulma -35-
Village with Mountain -12-
Clarendon
The Corn Harvest -08-
View in the Jungle Ferry,Jungleterry Ben
Kildeer
Ingallspark
abstractionism
Jadwiga Potocka, Countess Branicka
Jules Elie Delaunay
Pentecost
aqualung life still
Circumcision kin
Commerce
The Storm 7
Vayk'
The Entombment -detail- fg
Surrency
The Death of Sardanapalus -04-
Landscape with a Woman Leading a Cow
Ugolino Martelli -45-
Still-life sf
The Birth of Venus -36-
Presentation in the Temple
Bayeu, Ramn
Valandovo
The Luxembourg Gardens at Twilight -18-
The Lake,The Sleeping Water -19-
Cross,with Depiction of the Crucifixiom
Woman with a Dog_y
Secondmesa
Napoleon Visiting the Plague Vicims at j
Portrait of Elisabeth Facobsdr.Bas -33-
Don Luis de Gongora y Argote -df01-
Lukeafb
Flowers in Glass and Fruits
Recreation in a Russian Camp
Birch, Thomas
Thomas De Keyser
Artist-s Chair with Pipe
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Henri Matisse:
French Fauvist Painter and Sculptor, 1869-1954
Henri Matisse is considered the most important French artist of the 20th century and, along with Pablo Picasso, one of the most influential modernist painters of the last century. Matisse began studying drawing and painting in the 1890s. A student of the masters of Post-Impressionism, Matisse later made a reputation for himself as the leader of a group of painters known as Les Fauves. An ironic label given to them by a critic, the name reflected Matisse's aggressive strokes and bold use of primary colors. In 1905 Matisse gained sudden fame with three paintings, including Woman with the Hat, purchased by the wealthy American ex-patriot Gertrude Stein. Beyond painting, he worked with lithographs and sculpture, and during World War II he did a series of book designs. Later in his career he experimented with paper cutouts and designed decorations for the Dominican chapel in Vence, France. Along with Picasso,
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